05/12/2011

Tendering On The Internet

Let's be honest, we're all still feeling the recession and still struggling to get work. One fantastic business opportunity is tendering, simply browsing the thousands of tenders that are made available each week in the OJEU. You may not know this, but all the information is in fact available online, and it is completely free. The whole tendering process is made a whole lot easier and faster on the internet, which is making it more and more attractive to businesses struggling to get work.

Tendering the traditional way can take a while, you have to hunt through the chunky OJEU to find what you are looking for, and for all you know there may be nothing that suits your business at all in that issue. What's more, if you find a tender you wish to register for, the ensuing tendering process is slow. You have to send off your Pre Qualification Questionnaire and wait for a response. In fact, you will have to have it sent out to you if you don't have it first of all! Tendering on the internet cuts a lot of corners, the key one being the search ability. You can really narrow down your search to exactly what is relevant to you, meaning you don't have to waste any time hunting through tenders that you would never be applying for. You can search by keyword, using CPV codes, or even by location. I'm sure you can already see why tendering online is so much more efficient, but there are a lot more added benefits in addition to this!

The whole tendering process, once you have found a tender you wish to register for, is made quick and easy on the internet. You can simply submit the form immediately, and then just wait to hear back. No more back and forth communication via post or telephone.

Also, if you still feel searching for tenders takes up a bit too much of your time, you can register for a paid tender alert service which will send you email alerts whenever a tender becomes available that falls under the specifications you outline when you set your account up. That way you don't even have to go online and search, you just wait for the tenders to be emailed out to you, and if you find a suitable one, you go ahead and start the tendering process.

Tendering on the internet is a viable means of finding business opportunities that you otherwise would have missed.

1 Comment

Internet has given a new dimension to the business process. Searching for tender has been made easy and quick. If it is difficult to get tenders then it is better to hire any business experts into your organization.